This Week's Acquisitions
- Emma Donoghue, Frog Music (Back Bay, 2014). Murder mystery set during a very hot San Francisco summer in 1876. (Lift Bridge)
- Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird (Riverhead, 2014). Rewrite of "Snow White," updated to 1950s New York and addressing questions of racial identity. (Lift Bridge)
- Barbara Klein Moss, The Language of Paradise (Norton, 2015). In nineteenth-century America, a young woman tries to deal with her husband's and his friend's obsession with reconstructing the original language of man spoken in the Garden of Eden. (Amazon)
- Miriam Moffitt, The Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, 1849-1950 (Manchester, 2010). History of the Society's evangelizing efforts in the mid-19th century and their religious, social, and political ramifications. (Amazon [secondhand])